Latest Release of Social Business Software Accelerates Community Building With Instant Deployment on Acquia Cloud, Native Support for Responsive Design
BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - Feb 26, 2013) - Acquia, the leading open cloud platform for integrated digital experiences, today released Drupal Commons 3.0 to accelerate the creation of digital communities and social applications. This release builds on Acquia's OpenWEM initiative for digital marketers by offering social business capabilities as a unified component of a content, community and commerce platform, powered by open source Drupal.
Built on Drupal 7, Drupal Commons 3.0 enables digital businesses to achieve breakthrough results with social applications for customer communities, brand advocacy, social commerce and employee collaboration. Most importantly, Drupal Commons is open at its core. It can be easily integrated into every component of the digital marketing ecosystem -- from marketing automation to social analytics, including Marketo, Facebook, Badgeville, Google Analytics, and many more. Drupal Commons frees organizations from the complexity of custom application development so digital teams can focus on engaging their communities.
This third generation release of Drupal Commons includes the following new capabilities:
"Drupal Commons deployed on Acquia Cloud offers digital marketers and IT professionals an innovative social business solution that helps organizations build deeper customer relationships, which in turn lead to greater insights and action," said Tom Erickson, CEO of Acquia. "Online communities and social applications have a direct influence on the buying process. Drupal Commons helps our customers build better community applications that improve customer satisfaction, accelerate purchase decisions and engage zealous brand advocates."
The combination of Drupal Commons running on Acquia Cloud offers digital marketers and community managers a complete solution that takes advantage of Acquia's digital experience suite, unleashing the power of community to achieve social business breakthroughs. Working with Acquia, organizations can take advantage of add-ons in the Acquia Network Marketplace to achieve the following:
"Drupal Commons 3.0 offers the right mix of out-of-the-box capabilities with the agility of an open platform that enables us to drive business results," said Jay Krall, Media Research Manager at Cision. "With Acquia's stewardship, Drupal Commons has become a mature social business platform that enables us to engage deeply with our customers and stakeholders."
About Acquia, the Enterprise Guide to Drupal
Acquia provides enterprises with the freedom to create extraordinary web experiences based on Drupal, the open source platform that integrates content, community and commerce. Offering a variety of SaaS solutions specifically designed for Drupal, Acquia gives global organizations the unparalleled ability to rapidly deploy and manage multichannel content across web and mobile devices. Co-founded by Drupal project's creator in 2007, Acquia has helped more than 2,500 companies including Twitter, Warner Music Group, Humana, Stanford University, Mercedes-Benz and the New York MTA, to grow and scale their digital experiences with confidence. Acquia was recently named the number one software company in the 2012 Inc. 500 and was named one of the 100 most promising companies in America by Forbes Magazine. See who's using Drupal at http://www.drupalshowcase.com, and for more information visit www.acquia.com or call +1 781 238 8600.
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